La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, led by guest conductor Jeffrey Malecki, performs Gioachino Rossini’s iconic and powerful Stabat Mater, which was performed for the first time as a completed work in 1842 in Paris. In addition, composer Sang Song, the 2022 Nee Commission winner, premiere’s his new work Frozen Grief. Recorded on 12/04/2023. [2/2023] [Show ID: 38415]
00:00 Start
00:17 Frozen Grief
14:10 Stabat Mater
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PROGRAM NOTES for FROZEN GRIEF
It is often said that those who are grieving a loss go through the following five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. When psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) introduced this “five-stages-of-grief” model in her 1969 book On Death and Dying, she was concerned with those who are dying due to terminal illness rather than those who are at the loss end of those deaths. For some reason, however, the model has later been expanded to encompass grief in general.
The “five-stages-of-grief” model implies that, if we follow certain steps, we’ll be able to get over our losses within a reasonable timeline. What psychiatrist Pauline Boss (1934-) calls ambiguous loss rejects such linear models, however. In its simplest sense, ambiguous loss refers to loss without closure. When someone’s family member goes missing, for example, there’s no closure since one doesn’t know whether the family member is alive or dead—or whether they’re ever going to come back. This lack of closure could result in them becoming stuck in their sorrow, which is what Boss calls frozen grief.
Ambiguous loss can occur from losses other than death. For example, the losses “of livelihood, of possibility, of dreams, of plans, of things that seemed certain yesterday” could all result in ambiguous losses, which, in turn, can give rise to frozen grief. Contrary to the mainstream view, Boss rejects the notion that grief is something that needs to be overcome. Rather, she remarks that “the goal is to live with the grief rather than to close the door.”
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